The Novels of Mrs. Oliphant: A Subversive View of Traditional ThemesP. Lang, 1994 - 343 páginas Margarete Oliphant (1828-1897) has long been decried as a conventional hack. This study shows that she was, in fact, an original and quite subversive writer, who radically re-interpreted traditional motifs and challenged values and ideals sacrosanct to the age. In her novels she turned upside down Victorian stereotypes of gender roles, marriage and family hierarchy, presented religious questions, death-bed scenes and the hereafter from a new and unconventional angle, and in her portrayal dispensed with models almost all of her contemporaries were content to follow. She deserves a permanent place in the gallery of nineteenth-century authors. |
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... servants have recognised his intentions from the outset . He wondered night and day whether she knew , whether she had any suspicion , if it had ever occurred to her to think ; but that the maids should be peeping from the windows , and ...
... servants have recognised his intentions from the outset . He wondered night and day whether she knew , whether she had any suspicion , if it had ever occurred to her to think ; but that the maids should be peeping from the windows , and ...
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... servants in the nineteenth century , their exaggerated sense of family pride , their squabbling and courting , are ... servant's decision to sacrifice himself for his master by assuming responsibility for Torrance's death , thus saving ...
... servants in the nineteenth century , their exaggerated sense of family pride , their squabbling and courting , are ... servant's decision to sacrifice himself for his master by assuming responsibility for Torrance's death , thus saving ...
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... servant of this congregation ? Am I their slave ? Must I ac- count to them for every accident of my life ? Nobody in ... servant , responsible to you , or God's servant , responsible to 31 In Dickens , Gaskell and Thackeray the ...
... servant of this congregation ? Am I their slave ? Must I ac- count to them for every accident of my life ? Nobody in ... servant , responsible to you , or God's servant , responsible to 31 In Dickens , Gaskell and Thackeray the ...
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Introduction | 1 |
FORMAL CONSIDERATIONS | 17 |
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